Illustrationes Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ is a book published in 1813 by illustrator Ferdinand Bauer .
| Illustrationes Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ | |
|---|---|
 The first page of the book | |
| Author | Ferdinand Bauer |
| Genre | botanical illustration |
| Original published | 1813 |
Bauer was a scientific illustrator on the Investigator ship during the exploration of Australia by Matthew Flinders , and in this position Bauer worked closely with the expedition naturalist Robert Brown . When they returned to Britain in 1805, they brought with them thousands of plant species and hundreds of sketches. Initially, they planned to publish a large-scale work entitled “Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae,” but they did not succeed, and Brown decided to publish his scientific works separately, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London , and also in his own work , Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen . Bauer did a little work - the text of the book consisted of a brief introduction and a few comments from the author [1] .
Bauer not only made all the illustrations, but also engraved the plants, and also manually painted them. For that time, it was extremely unusual for one artist to perform these three roles. Helen Hewson noted that Bauer did all this himself, since he could not find a good engraver, and his previous works were bad precisely because of unprofessional engraving [1] .
In 1997, a copy of the book was sold at Christie's auction for $ 57,000. [2]
Illustrations
Banksia coccinea
Alyogyne hakeifolia
Grevillea banksii
Stylidium violaceum
Brunonia australis
Cartonema spicatum
Chloanthes stoechadis
Aneilema crispata
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Hewson, Helen. Australia: 300 years of botanical illustration. - Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 1999 .-- ISBN 0-643-06366-8 .
- ↑ Bauer, Ferdinand . Date of treatment September 14, 2007. Archived on September 8, 2012.